Trust, as an important social capital and informal institution, has profoundly affected transaction behaviors in Chinese second-hand housing market. Based on the second-hand housing transactions of 17 cities from Lianjia database, this paper matches the birthplaces of traders with CESS2000 to...

The $4.7 billion acquisition of Smithfield Foods, Inc. by China's Shuanghui International Holdings Ltd. (now WH Group Ltd.) marks the largest Chinese takeover of a U.S. company in history. In this study, we explored how this acquisition affected consumers' willingness-to-pay for meat products in...